feckin awesome.............................
Apologies for the delay in posting..........kids banned me from any work yesterday lol.
Really don't know where to start with this one as I can honestly say we are all still buzzing from The feckin Big Fishs' gig on Saturday........and boy has it caused me major dilemas!!!!!!
The pub started filling up at 7pm with people wanting to see the band (normally this doesn't happen until around 9.30 -10.00pm), by 8.00pm there wasn't a spare seat in sight and we had to shuffle through the standing customers!!!!! Customers were buzzing and joining in the fun of 'the sound checks'.........the atmosphere was fantastic!!!!! The band started around 9.00pm and played right through until after midnight (with a few breaks in between ofcourse), as far as the customers were concerned this WAS an Irish band - no-one would have thought any different or known this was the 1st Irish set they had played...........truly professional and fantastic musicians. Customers were buzzing the whole night and the atmosphere just got better and better.
All night I was faced with coments like 'this is more like it', 'you need to get more bands on like this' etc etc etc..........and these comments were still flying around the pub today! And to be honest, I have never seen the pub with such a fantasic atmosphere in the 3 years we have been there...........which does cause us a bit of dilema as we are now having to consider whether the bands we have on are too heavy for the majority of customers who would come to our pub..........it's going to be a very tough decision but after The Big Fishs' performance and the atmosphere created, we have to make the right decisions for the business and customers alike.
Apart from the dilema we are in.......I can't thank the guys enough for such a fantastic night and a big thanks to NWB as if I hadn't put the blog on for an Irish band for Paddys, I would probably have never had the joy of seeing The feckin Big Fish...............
Luv an hugs xxx